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ID: 7014479
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014479
Record Type:
administrative
Santa Cruz (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 122 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on N shore of Monterey Bay; developed as lumber & fishing center after coming under US control in 1846; expanded with industrial development in 1950s; close to beaches & redwood forests.
Names:
Santa Cruz
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Branciforte
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
California
(state) (
P
)
................
Santa Cruz
(county) (
P
)
....................
Santa Cruz
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
site of Mission Santa Cruz founded in 1791 & of Spanish colony of Branciforte in 1797
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1866
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1850
agricultural center (
C
)
timber center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
............
since construction of University of California at Santa Cruz in 1965
Sources and Contributors:
Branciforte..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 424
Santa Cruz..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 425
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6028483
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 424; X, 425
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6028483
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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